u/Individual-Tea-7171

Hi! This is my elephant ear, Elentiya. She is 1.5 years old, and for the past two months has had a really enlarged abdomen. She was originally with some Pygmy corydoras and stole some of their fluval bottom feeder bites, so I moved her to a different tank and since then she has stayed really large. I saw her snacking on duckweed a few weeks ago and removed all of it from her tank. I thiught that was the problem, but a month later and she is still round. I have tried fasting for 2-3 days a couple of times with epsom salt baths. I also tried aquarium salt for a bit. I have tried Kanaplex and paragaurd separately in case it was dropsy, although after a few months I dont think that’s the case. In the past month, I have cut back on most of this because I assumed removing the duckweed would fix it. I switched her food to frozen mysis and brine shrimp to reduce any chance of further constipation.

Is she still backed up from the fluval bottom feeder pellets? Is it possibly cancer or egg problems? She laid eggs for the first and only time in December.

Previously, she has been pretty prone to fin rot since I first got her, and she tends to heal pretty slow in general but is always very responsive to Paragaurd. She is still acting fairly normal. She is eating, sleeping, and still energetic.

My betta had this weird spot appear on her right eye a few days ago. I was hopeful it was a mechanical injury or maybe just a small cataract and did a water change and added stress guard in hopes of keeping infection away. Now, it is on her other eye in the exact same spot too? I dont think I see any ich-like spots on her body? I am only a year into owning bettas and want to see what yall think. I started dosing kanaplex last night and removed carbon media. Her eye is not cloudy, luckily, and she seems to still see just fine.

I have been giving her salt baths for prolonged bloatedness after she stole food from previous tankmates a few weeks ago. Could this be related and a sign of overall infection?

Poor girl is my first betta. She has been through a lot and had fin rot when I first got her. Her petco cup was dated as “June” and I didnt get her til August and definitely had a bigger learning curve with treating infections than I ever expected. She unfortunately gets sick so easily in comparison to my other betta, so any insights would be appreciated 😢 I think in part it is due to the three or so months she spent in a small cup really did damage her immune system, which is why I so frequently rely on frequent water changes, tannins, safeguard, especially after moving her tank to my new house. I would love to hear from anyone else about how to keep a sickness-prone betta healthy. I have zero problems with my other betta, so I would greatly appreciate any other ideas for supportive care that I could be offering. Thank you!

My betta elentiya overate some pygmy corydora food (fluval bottom feeder pellets) about three weeks ago. I fasted for three days and monitored, but she still looks large. Ive cut down significantly on her usual fluval betta bites and done another fast. Her scales dont seem raised from above but she still looks extremely rotund and overweight compared to before she snatched the pygmy food.

Is this early dropsy? Long-term bloating that refuses to go away? I have paragaurd, kanaplex, epsom salt, indian almond leaves, and stress gaurd on hand, and I can always try to order more medicine online.

First three pics are her currently (I am getting ready to try another 1 gallon epsom salt bath) and the fourth pic is her the day she overate.